Maria Krysan (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1995) is an Associate Professor of Sociology. Her recent research focuses on the factors underlying racial residential preferences, trends in racial attitudes, and the sources of racial policy attitudes. Her investigations of these substantive issues often connect to methodological questions about how to study this sensitive area of social life. She combines standard closed-ended survey analysis with mode of administration experiments, analyses of open-ended survey questions, and depth interviews. She is co-author (with H. Schuman, L. Bobo and C. Steeh) of the book Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations (Harvard University Press, Revised Edition, 1997), and is responsible for a website that updates the data from that book (http://tigger.cc.uic.edu/~krysan/racialattitudes.htm). Her most recent work has appeared in Social Psychology Quarterly (Qualifying a Quantifying Analysis on Racial Equality, 1999, 62(2):211-218), Annual Review of Sociology (Prejudice, Politics, and Public Opinion: Understanding the Sources of Racial Policy Attitudes, 2000, Vol. 26), Demography (Whites Who Say They'd Flee: Who are they and why would they leave?, 2002, Vol. 39), Social Problems (Community Undesirability in Black and White: Examining Racial Residential Preferences Through Community Perceptions, 2002, Vol. 49), and other journals. She is a principal investigator on an NSF-funded grant, "Collaborative Research on Race and Rust Belt Revitalization: What Determines Who Lives Where?" a project that continues her interest in racial attitudes and racial residential segregation.